My new painting titled The FNG gets featured in the art magazine Average Art. Even though Average Art is a small publication it still feels really good to be recognised for doing something well. Some interesting artists in the December issue so I recommend heading over to Average Art’s website and buying a magazine or…

This is a current work in progress of a large painting (130cm x 130cm). Part of a series of re-imagining of cafe diner scenes from popular cinema. An amalgamation of daydreaming my way through cinema these pictures are generated by contrasting objects that produces a dialogue which suggests a scenario of events and those that…

Vietnam War Painting Well, for a minute I thought I was losing it when after spending a decent amout of time making a stencil for the text that I knew would be found on a Claymore mine during the Vietnam war,,, I asked myself “How in the hell did I get back to the letter ‘C’?”.…

The Vietnam War slang “John Wayne” crops up a lot for various different meanings in the Vietnam War, my favorite use was for the soldier that was going a bit too “bizerk” in a fire fight, exposing himself to direct fire as if was imortal just like that unstopable cowboy.

The meaning of the slang word “Ho Chi Minh Shoes” literally reffered to a pair of shoes that were made from tires and worn by the North Vietnamese tecking over the Ho Chi Minh trail from North to South.

The F4 Phantom was the primary air war workhorse of the Vietnam War, they were used for fighting MIGs, targeting bridges and other strategic targets and provided fire support. I’ve read a bit on the F4’s pilots war stories and I believe that they all had balls of steel.

ETS if you think about it is not really a slang word but an abreviation for “Estimated Time of Serperation”. Soldiers would write the months they had left on their tour of duty in Vietnam and cross them off as they progressed.

War paint was a common occurance, the most elaborate and well decorated helmets during the Vietnam War were those of the fighter pilot. War paint decoration is also sernonimous with showing up on the sides of military weapons, vehicles and larger bombs.

Arclight or Arc Light is the general term for the use of B52 bombers to provide CAS (Close Air Support), the title was first used as the monicer for mission Operation Arc Light in 1965; that mission consisted in part the deployment of B-52F Stratofortresses as conventional bombers from bases in the US to Guam to support…